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The Inter font family
https://rsms.me/inter/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Light weights #14

Closed jahala closed 5 years ago

jahala commented 7 years ago

Beautiful font! Any chance for "Light" and "Thin" versions? (Even though they may be outside of the current scope of the font)

rsms commented 7 years ago

This is definitely on the roadmap. Big project though and probably best done in a parallel branch.

lisabufzinski1671 commented 7 years ago

Can take out

timHau commented 7 years ago

What is the current status of this Issue? Would like to help if possible

renatocarvalho commented 6 years ago

Beautiful font. A Light / Thin version would be awesome.

pjrvs commented 6 years ago

I'd love a thin/light version too 👍

linuz90 commented 6 years ago

Eagerly waiting for at least a Light variations as well. Loving this typeface 🙌

JulianKingman commented 6 years ago

This would be awesome.

n0mar commented 6 years ago

Any updates? 😊

ghost commented 5 years ago

Any updates on this? :)

rsms commented 5 years ago

Thank you all for chiming in!

This is a side project that I do on my free time. Adding a light weight means creating a new master by hand, which essentially means drawing over 2000 glyphs (Inter UI has a little over 2300 glyphs.) Including kerning.

Something like this probably takes around 300 hours. Say I can find four full days every month to work on this (8 hours a day of productive work), then it would take about 9 months to complete.

Now add the fact that I try to have a life, am working at a startup and have other hobby projects, it's not likely that this will happen until end of 2019.

However there are shortcuts we could take. For instance, I could extrapolate a thin weight from the existing masters as a starting point, and we would have lighter weights in a matter or hours rather than months, but most glyphs would look like crap. Over time, glyph by glyph would be manually redrawn and the quality would gradually improve.

The latter is probably the best approach :–)

rsms commented 5 years ago

Started this today and took the "shortcut" approach as mentioned above. About 10 hours in and I've gotten farther than I thought I would. About 2–3% or so I'd say.

Glyphs drawn so far:

screen shot 2018-11-25 at 17 28 27

And here's a view of what the glyphs generated via extrapolation looks like — pretty f-ed with all sorts of issues, but they do serve as a good starting point for drawing new glyphs.

screen shot 2018-11-25 at 17 28 13

I'll post an early build in a little while.

rsms commented 5 years ago

Here's a build with this past weekend's work:

Inter-UI-3.2-light-dcec705b07.zip

How far I got:

screen shot 2018-11-26 at 08 53 43
rsms commented 5 years ago

Work is happening in the "light" branch https://github.com/rsms/inter/tree/light

rsms commented 5 years ago

Progress update

screen shot 2018-11-30 at 00 19 35
rsms commented 5 years ago

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renatocarvalho commented 5 years ago

Beeeautiful!

NetOpWibby commented 5 years ago

Oh that’s nice.

rsms commented 5 years ago

I've been very busy with life and work recently and haven't been able to make more progress, but will have time in the next few weeks to get back to this.

rsms commented 5 years ago

A few more samples of work in progress.

screen shot 2018-12-25 at 18 01 56 screen shot 2018-12-25 at 18 30 46
rsms commented 5 years ago

Some more screenshots of work in progress

screen shot 2018-12-27 at 15 16 44 screen shot 2018-12-27 at 15 46 53 screen shot 2018-12-27 at 16 37 29 screen shot 2018-12-27 at 18 13 37
rsms commented 5 years ago

Here's a new pre-release beta build:

Inter-UI-3.2-light-9bb34a8fa6.zip

renatocarvalho commented 5 years ago

@rsms Thank you!

rsms commented 5 years ago
screen shot 2018-12-29 at 11 57 44
rsms commented 5 years ago

Here's a new build of the latest progress: Inter-UI-3.2-light-b82b74e544.zip

Some screenshots of changes since past screenshots above:

screen shot 2018-12-29 at 14 19 04 screen shot 2018-12-29 at 15 02 32 screen shot 2018-12-29 at 17 29 50
rsms commented 5 years ago

New beta build: Inter-UI-3.2-light-889f6cf3be.zip

Mainly diacritics

rsms commented 5 years ago

The "light" branch has been merged into master. Dist builds produce zip archives with the lighter weights, with font files marked by "-BETA".

rsms commented 5 years ago

Light, Extra Light and Thin (300, 200, and 100 weight classes, correspondingly) are now included in official releases marked as "BETA", starting with release v3.2